Steam Now Accepting NSFW Games

Back in May of this year, Steam started a crackdown of games with adult content regardless of how mild it is. This led to a bulk of the gaming community rallying against this move which forced Valve to shift into reverse.

Sometime later, the publisher made a surprise announcement, revealing that it would change its policies so that all games would be accepted unless illegal or trolling.

Looks like the results of this are starting to show, and the first uncensored sexually-explicit adult games are being approved. This is the case of Negligee: Love Stories, that will make it on Steam despite including content that would have been censored before, requiring an external patch to be restored.

The description of the game on Steam explains what customers can expect:

Negligee: Love Stories features four story-lines that frequently include dialogue of sexual themes, sexual interactions and nudity and through them illustrations featuring nudity, undressing and sexual interactions as well.

Scenes within the game include illustrated and dialogue descriptions of male and female single partner sexual relationships, modelling, outdoor sexual activity, male and female multiple partner sexual activity and female and female single partner sexual relationships.

Instead of refusing games with explicit sexual content, Steam now hides them behind a content filter. Developers are required to flag the games accordingly, and users are asked to check a dedicated option in their account preference.

Basically, if you don’t want to see this kind of games, nothing changes for you. If you do, you’ll have to activate the option in order to let Steam know that you’re okay with it.